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Lesser-Known Color Vocabulary: D Through L

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With a little help from the Phrontistery and a colors study series by CLmember Miaki, we've put together a guide to lesser-known color vocabulary.

Eau-de-nil

pale green colour

Eburnean

of or like ivory; ivory-coloured

Erythraean

reddish colour

Ferruginous

of the colour of rust; impregnated with iron

Filemot

dead-leaf colour; dull brown

Flammeous

flame-coloured

Flavescent

yellowish or turning yellow

Fuliginous

sooty; dusky; soot-coloured; of or pertaining to soot

Fulvous

dull yellow; tawny

Fuscous

brown; tawny; dingy

Gamboge

reddish-yellow colour

Glaucous

sea-green; greyish-blue

Goldenrod

dark golden yellow

Greige

of a grey-beige colour

Gridelin

violet-grey

Griseous

pearl-grey or blue-grey; grizzled

Haematic

blood-coloured

Heliotrope

purplish hue; purplish-flowered plant; ancient sundial; signalling mirror

Hoary

pale silver-grey colour; grey with age

Hyacinthine

of a blue or purple colour

Ianthine

violet-coloured

Ibis

large stork-like bird; a pale apricot colour

Icterine

yellowish or marked with yellow

Icteritious

jaundiced; yellow

Incarnadine

carnation-coloured; blood-red

Indigo

deep blue-violet colour; a blue-violet dye

Infuscate

clouded or tinged with brown; obscured; cloudy brown colour

Isabelline

greyish yellow

Jacinthe

orange colour

Jessamy

yellow like a jasmine

Kermes

brilliant red colour; a red dye derived from insects

Khaki

light brown or tan

Lateritious

brick-red

Leucochroic

white or pale-coloured

Liard

grey; dapple-grey

Lovat

grey-green; blue-green

Lurid

red-yellow; yellow-brown

Luteolous

yellowish

Luteous

golden-yellow

Lutescent

yellowish

See the rest of the alphabet: A - C, D - L, M - R, S - Z.

26 March, 2009
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Nice Autu…
26 Mar, 2009
Very interesting !!!

roxychane…
roxychaney wrote:
26 Mar, 2009
keep em coming! rarity is a thing of beauty in and of itself :D

vanishing
vanishing wrote:
26 Mar, 2009
The names for these colors are very interesting.

leppy
leppy wrote:
26 Mar, 2009
Rarity

Rarity2

tenkerasu
tenkerasu wrote:
26 Mar, 2009
some of these are so cool - i seriously had no idea heliotrope was a colour! 8D

victoriac…
27 Mar, 2009
this is very cool

retsof
retsof wrote:
27 Mar, 2009
Heliotrope as a named color has been around since 1882. Bluish-pink or purple from the flower of the same name which means 'turning towards the sun'.

retsof
retsof wrote:
27 Mar, 2009
might as well continue the 1930 series ... lake comes from lac insects ... think "shellac".

Open each color for color "stamp".

Lake_(Newfoundland)LakeDeep_LakeDull_Rose

Indian red...named for India, not American Indians, which were named for India by mistake. ... Crayola changed it to "chestnut".
Indian_RedFlesh

retsof
retsof wrote:
27 Mar, 2009
LemonDrabDeep_Olive-GreenGreenGrey-GreenEmeraldDeep_Blue-GreenGreenish_BlueDeep_BlueLight_BlueDull_Blue

retsof
retsof wrote:
27 Mar, 2009
Deep_UltramarineGrey-BlueIndigoDeep_VioletLavenderLilacDull_PurpleDull_ClaretIron-GreyGrey


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